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CVE-2020-5274: Fix Exception message escaping rendered by ErrorHandler

March 30, 2020 · Published by Avatar of Fabien Potencier Fabien Potencier

Affected versions

Symfony 4.4.0 to 4.4.3 and 5.0.0 to 5.0.4 versions of the Symfony ErrorHandler component are affected by this security issue.

The issue has been fixed in Symfony 4.4.4 and 5.0.4.

Description

When ErrorHandler renders an exception HTML page, it uses un-escaped properties from the related Exception class to render the stacktrace. The security issue comes from the fact that the stacktraces were also displayed in non-debug environments.

Resolution

The ErrorHandler class now escapes all properties coming from the related Exception, and the stacktrace is not displayed anymore in non-debug environments.

The patches for this issue are available here and here for 4.4 branch.

Credits

I would like to thank Luka Sikic for reporting & Yonel Ceruto and Jérémy Derussé for fixing the issue.

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Comments

Avatar of Jeroen Noten
Jeroen Noten Certified said on Apr 1, 2020
It says that Symfony 5.0.0 to 5.0.4 are affected and that the issue was fixed in version 5.0.4. Shouldn't that be '5.0.0 to 5.0.3' as the affected versions?

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